'Horned Turban' Snail 24 August 2017

Reassessing nomenclature for 'horned turban' snail 24 August 2017 of Japan and Korea. It should be restricted to the species endemic to southern China and Taiwan. Turbo chinensis is the junior synonym and invalid. Turbo japonicus Reeve, 1848 has long been believed to be a junior synonym of T. cornutus, but Reeve's name contains two distinctly different species. One of themis a species known only from Mauritius and Réunion, in spite of the name'japonicus'. Subsequent authors validated the name for species in Mauritius. AnotherT. japonicus by Reeve is the horned turban of Japan, but this is the juniorhomonym of the aforementioned T. japonicus from Mauritius, and is unfortunately,invalid. Figure 1: Turbo sazae from Japan. Credit: Okayama University The 'horned turban' is well known to people mainly in Japan, Korea, and China as an edible marine snail. The species of Japan and Korea was known as Turbo cornutus Lightfoot, 1786 (Sazae in Japanese; Fig. 1) and the Chinese one as T. chinensis Ozawa & Tomida, 1995 (Nankai-sazae; Fig. 2). The first literature record of T. cornutus was published 250 years ago (Fig. 3) and the name was globally accepted. However, Hiroshi Fukuda, at the Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama Figure 2: Turbo cornutus from China. Photo by Dr Yuichi Kameda of the National Science Museum, Tokyo. Credit: University discovered the existence of Okayama University nomenclatural confusion for these two species. He reviewed their history since original descriptions based on examination of old literature and re- defined the identities of the two species in Surprisingly, the horned turban of Japan and Korea accordance with the International Code of did not have any valid scientific names. Thus, Zoological Nomenclature. Turbo sazae Fukuda, 2017 was proposed for this species as a new replacement name for the invalid Turbo cornutus is not identifiable with the species T. japonicus.. 1 / 2 The complicated history of the nomenclature for these species was caused by 'Chinese whispers' by zoologists over 250 years, partly because the species were very common for all the researchers and nobody suspected the misidentification. Figure 3: The original illustration of the type specimen of Turbo cornutus from China, after Davila (1767). Credit: Okayama University More information: Hiroshi Fukuda. Nomenclature of the horned turbans previously known as Turbo cornutus [Lightfoot], 1786 and Turbo chinensis Ozawa & Tomida, 1995 (Vetigastropoda: Trochoidea: Turbinidae) from China, Japan and Korea, Molluscan Research (2017). DOI: 10.1080/13235818.2017.1314741 Provided by Okayama University APA citation: Reassessing nomenclature for 'horned turban' snail (2017, August 24) retrieved 25 September 2021 from https://phys.org/news/2017-08-reassessing-nomenclature-horned-turban- snail.html This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only. 2 / 2 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org).

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